The artwork known as The Picnic created by passionate African American artist Archibald Motley Jr in 1936‚ is one of the many of his art pieces that displays African American culture in a stereotypical way. However‚ through his artistic creativity he is able to put a positive spin on the stereotype to give a more uplifting message. Motley is commended for his vibrant palette‚ through vibrant color and flowing shapes‚ along with his dazzling effects of the skin tones and apparel‚ his art is able to
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Guernica by Pablo Picasso is an immediate response of an artist to an inhuman act of bombarding the Basque capital by German Nazis. The fact that this art piece relates to a real event in the history emphasizes its importance and the message it conveys. Picasso used a lot of symbols to convey the message hidden behind his art. One of the symbol is the electric light bulb which shines on the figures in the painting. The electric light bulb has a shape of an eye and it symbolizes that the world is
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premontion of Civil War) was painted by Salvador Dali in 1936 in Spanish. The type of the painting is oil on canvas. The dimensions are 100cm x 99cm.The location of the painting is Philadelphia Musesum of Art‚ Philadelphia. The painting was a surrealist art work.This art work was one of the most radical of Salvador Dali art career.It showed the outbreak of the Spanish civil war was caused by fear.This painting was to predict the unrest erupted in Spain.It was
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Picasso’s most famous painting Guernica is arguably among the ranks of the most famous paintings in existence. Because of this‚ Guernica is also one of the most discussed and widely interpreted works of art in the world. Speculations as to the exact meaning of the images are as numerous and varied as the paintings admirers‚ and perhaps this was exactly Pablo Picasso’s intention. His composition is so compelling and powerful it challenges our most basic notions of war as heroic and noble‚ and unmasks
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The Spanish painter Picasso was a cubist and his worldwide famous ‘Guernica’ is a mural-sized flat oil painting on canvas (3.5 metres tall and 7.8 metres wide). It is all greys‚ blacks and whites and was painted in 1937. Picasso started the painting when he heard that the Germans had just bombed the quiet and traditional Basque town of Guernica on 26 April 1937 in support of the Spanish Nationalist forces of the Fascist General Franco during the Spanish Civil War. The broken sword near the bottom
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Ernst Luly ART 1012 FMWA Agitprop! Assignment LABEL TEXT: Julius Block (American‚ born Germany‚ 1888-1966) The Lynching‚ 1932 Oil on Canvas Whitney Museum of American Art‚ New York According to the Brooklyn Museum’s website‚ Agitprop! is a combination of the terms agitate and propaganda. Based on my own observations‚ I was able to deduce the overall theme of Agitprop! as art that was used as a means of protest against various social and cultural issues. A wide range of issues is addressed
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Look at Picasso’s mural Guernica‚ painted in 1937 (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso/guernica.jpg.html). Would you classify Guernica as Expressionism‚ Cubism‚ Dada‚ or Surrealism? Explain your answer by using specific visual and stylistic references. Presumably Picasso’s most appreciated work of art‚ Guernica is undoubtedly his most effective political statement‚ painted as a quick response to the Nazi’s staggering easygoing bombarding practice on the Basque town of Guernica amid Spanish
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Introduction This essay will aim on the situation in Kosovo in 1999 and will try to have a critique look on NATO’s bombing campaign in Kosovo that year. The Serbian province and Serbs were considered as the most violate in all of the former Yugoslavia. Serbian authorities repealed Kosovo ’s parliament in 1990‚ forcing the region ’s political leaders to seek refuge in the Yugoslav republic of Macedonia‚ where they declared Kosovo ’s independence. However‚ the underground government of Ibrahim
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There’s a lot of bombing the bejeezus out of all sorts of people around these days and Webdiarists seem to be much keen on discussing it recently so I am grateful both to SWMBO and the Librarian at St Vincent’s College Potts Point for bringing to my attention AC Grayling’s Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime? Bloomsbury Publishing‚ London 2006. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College‚ University of London and he raises some interesting
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Increased Air Security after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a major event in the history of the United States (U.S.). The simplest elaboration of this traumatic event and the effects that reformed the way American’s viewed the security of the heavens is the goal. There are numerous events that transpired before‚ during‚ and after the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The ambition of this essay is to in the most simplistic of elaborations is to produce the different
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